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Fruiting body of Agaricus augustus

Agaricus augustus

Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 1, 2009

Right around the turn of September, staff here at the garden noticed these viscerally impressive giant mushrooms emerging from leaf litter beneath a western red cedar and evergreen oak in the David C. Lam Asian Garden. Then the slugs discovered it. Then we photographed it. Who else is eating this? It strikes me that the […]

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Flowers of Menyanthes trifoliata

Menyanthes trifoliata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 11, 2009

It has been a while since we’ve featured a family of primarily aquatic and wetland herbs–Menyanthaceae fits the bill! The family’s five genera consist of a total of between 60 and 70 mostly perennial species that are distributed broadly over the surface of the planet; the genera themselves are not globally distributed, however, as some […]

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Close-up of Petunia patagonica flower

Petunia patagonica

Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 15, 2009

Patagonia is a large place, covering southernmost Chile and Argentina. To me it conjures images of big skies, steppe lands and dry air. As it really is, Patagonia is much more, including Andes mountains and temperate rainforest similar to our own in Vancouver, BC. Petunias belong in the Solanaceae, which is well represented in South […]

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